Have you ever driven behind someone that was going ten miles-per-hour behind the speed limit, and then when they did get off the road, they take those 10 unnecessary seconds to take an extra slow right turn? Yes, anger is perhaps the leading emotion you feel at that time. Anger is what I feel too when I’m trying to follow a manga’s storyline that isn’t going anywhere because of their slow release schedule. If you are going this slow, either finish quickly or don’t drive at all!
I admit, I am spoiled by weekly manga magazines like
Shonen Jump. Every week I get a nice section of a bigger story that I can actively follow throughout my life. Hell, I would love a new chapter of
One Piece every day, but 20 or so pages of story line per week is enough for me. However, 20 pages of
Berserk per month, or every other month is painful. But it isn’t just painful, it’s hard to get emotionally attached to anything when you get such an insignificant taste of it every month.
The two biggest manga series guilty of this crime against humanity are Berserk and
Hunter X Hunter. The sad part is, Hunter X Hunter is supposed to be released weekly, but since the mangaka decides to take a break every other chapter or so, it feels like the manga is going nowhere.
Hunter x Hunter Vol 24
Now I know these are not the only two manga that are slow like this, and it isn’t always a bad thing because you can always experience them later as collected volumes. But even then these volumes are held back because of the mangaka’s slow release schedule, and if this goes on for too long the emotional link between the reader and the manga breaks, and the reader stops caring. The only way to fix it then is to end the manga. I don’t care if a manga is long, its just the long, slow ones that need to be concluded as quickly as possible.
The best way to experience these stories is just to wait for the manga volumes to be released and read them that way. Or just wait until the manga finishes, and read the entire thing then. Just please, what ever you do, put me out of my misery.
If it's a choice between getting the story slammed out or taking its time and looking excellent, I know which I'll choose every time.
Not that I don't wish BotI would come out faster, but I know that it would compromise the quality.
And here are some samples from the latest chapters of Naruto:
More spread out release dates equal more time to preparing quality of visual details and the plotting to a series.
And I would take one chapter of Berserk over one thousand chapters of the dribble in Shonen Jump.
What is his health issue again?
I would like to demand that Hellsing be put on this list. Seriosuly, it took the guy 7 Years to release all 10 volumes to america. its the fact that it took him so long to put out translated versions of only 10 volumes that I think should warrent a entry. lor knows how long its been in japan before they finished it.
and on a side note,when the hell am I getting OVA 5 in America?
I would also like to point out all of the people doing comics online for free that are on daily, 5 day, 3 day, or even weekly issues. It's nice to see content regularly and some have been updating daily for YEARS. (http://www.schlockmercenary.com anyone? :) ) So yeah, I agree slow updating ANYTHING is annoying. :)